Home > Consumer Reviews > Sharp LE37XD1E - 37" Widescreen 1080P Full HD LCD TV - With Freeview

I've had this TV for a week now and I must say that I am very impressed with it.

It was very easy to install and setup and within 15 minutes of taking it out of the box it was completely up and running.

The picture quality is superb. I made two adjustments to get it to suit my tastes (turned the constrast down two notches and set the colour temp to the middle setting) and I am in no way disappointed. The blacks on this TV are truly black, and films with lots of night scenes such as The Da Vinci Code really emphasise how good they are. Even from a non upscaling DVD player through the component input, my DVDs have never looked so good. The colours are amazing and I can detect no motion bluring at all. Pictures from my Sky Box and from the Freeview decoder general look brilliant and much, much better than I was expecting, the pictures from these sources are really sharp and crisp, and not soft and fuzzy like I see on other LCD TVs. But the jewel in the crown are the HD pictures, the clarity and detail of which will take your breath away.

I read a lot of criticism of the standard sound on this TV, but I can't really hear anything wrong with it, and the setting to boost the dialogue balance works really well in my opinion.

Another bonus is that this is a great looking set, I have mine mounted on the wall with a panel it hide the wiring and it looks fantastic, and everyone who has seen it has commented on what a great looking TV it is.

I think the LC37XD1E is an awesome TV and represents great value for money, I did my homework and looked at lots of sets before buying this TV, but the Sharp's picture quality blew me away. If your looking for this sort of TV you can't go far wrong with this one.

I have had this TV for 3 months now and I am very pleased with it. The picture quality and ease of use are fantastic. Would recommend it!

I bought this TV to go with Sky HD. A great combination. With HD the image is sharp and the colours are vivid. Sound needs to be at a high setting with HD. The built in freeview is good but not needed unless Sky has no suignal - very rare. Well worth the money.

This television works fine in most regards. Unfortunately it has three major problems.

1) The EPG mode (programming mode) changes the channel when you scroll through it. Meaning that if you wanted to see what else is on or coming up while watching a program you can't, it changes the channel as you scroll through. If you wanted to scroll through the channels you wouldn't go in to a whole new mode to do it.

2) The component cable can only be connected through an extra, utterly superfluous cable that comes with the TV. Unfortunately they didn't deign to provide an extra unit for the sound meaning you have to buy a 2-to-1 phono jack in order to get sound. This is messy and unnecessary.

3) Despite claiming to be Full HD ready this tv only supports 1080p through its HDMI IIRC access. If, like me, you wanted a TV that could show a normal Xbox 360 in 1080p you'd best not get this one.

Overall it seems like the manufacturers haven't considered what will happen when people use this unit. It works well and is pretty good in many ways but, for the extra money for Full HD, you've got to wonder why they didn't consider the various other users out there, including Xbox 360 (rather than Xbox Elite) owners.

Very pleased with this TV. Quality of the freeview picture superior to our Skybox picture, although I don't know why that should be. The only downside is it works well with the PS3 - which means my husband and son can't be prised away and I don't get a look in!